The complete online text of Taboo by James Branch Cabell.

The American essayist and writer of romantic fiction James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) played an important part in the battle against sexual taboos in American literature during the 1920s. James Branch Cabell was born in Richmond, Va., into an aristocratic...

Virginia-born James Branch Cabell , along with fellow Richmonder Ellen Glasgow, was one of the first voices of what would later become a rising chorus of modern southern writers. He is recognized today as a pioneering novelist and short-story writer of t...

Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, James Branch Cabell lived a life more or less typical of a Southern gentleman of modest means and impeccable pedigree. He attended William and Mary College (1894-1898) where his precocious brilliance was generally r...

Let's talk about sex. How many of you parents out there have not/would not/cannot utter those words to your children? I'm guessing most of you have your hands up right now, just like me. In the area of openness, which, if you believe...

The word "taboo" is Polynesian origin and is defined in Webster's "a sacred prohibition put upon certain people, things or acts, which makes them untouchable, unmentionable, etc." A secondary definition is: "any social prohibition or restriction that results from convention or tradition." These...

For most Americans, who now wish we had never invaded Iraq, the notion of expanding that extraordinarily lethal mistake into neighboring Iran and Syria must seem insane. Yet those same brilliant neoconservative strategists who brought us the war in Iraq and constantly urge its escalation...

Hikari Ota is doing what he does best on his weekly "news" show: taking aim at Japan's aging lawmakers."It's easy to spot them nodding away during parliamentary sessions," he tells the studio audience while a large screen on stage shows a napping lawmaker. "Sometimes they're...